Riverfest Elora 2025: A compendium of posts - Concert Photos

Another Riverfest Elora is in the books. This 2025 edition, which marked the 15th edition of the festival, was fantastic. Not only is it the chillest and friendliest festival around, it features a wide range of musical talent, some of which are destined to be your new favourite bands, along with delicious food and drinks, artisans, merch and random art in an idillic setting. And, the rain restricted itself to an overnight storm this year.

Please click through the links below to check out photos of your favourite acts and to discover some new ones. I'll be basking in the glow of an amazing weekend of music and friends in Elora. It's one of my favourite summer events, and I'm already looking forward to next year.

Friday

Silversun Pickups

Marcy Playground

Wheatus

Cam Kahin

Danny Michel

Emmett Watters

Fionn

Saturday

Fitz and the Tantrums

Sam Roberts Band

Slash Need

Tune-Yards

Tom Wilson

Moontricks

Dear Rouge

War on Women

Aviv

Tony McManus

Gavin McLeod

The J-Strokes

Sunday

City and Colour

Midnight Cowgirls

Rich Aucoin

The Philharmonik

Michie Mee

Delhi 2 Dublin

Grae

Asko

Spencer Burton

Le Couleur

Settlers Creek Band

Drop Dead Poppies

Chris Clark

If you haven't seen my coverage of many previous Riverfests, please click through on these links:

2016

2017

2018

2019

2022

2023

2024

Riverfest Elora 2025: Cam Kahin on the Koop Tent Stage - Concert Photos

One of my favourite things about Riverfest Elora is that every year I walk away with at least a couple of great new discoveries to add to my music library. This year, Cam Kahin and his band is one of those great new discoveries. I'll take a snippet from his bio, "21-year old Toronto alt-punk up-and-comer Cam Kahin makes fuzzy prog garage rock and earworm guitar sludge".

I loved the ragged energy mixed with creative and excellently sculpted guitar noise. I came away from their Koop Tent stage set impressed by the fantastic delivery of their music.

If you'd like to check out more of my Riverfest Elora coverage, please click here and you'll find links to everything in one post.

And here are a couple of Cam Kahin's tunes to check out:

"break or bend"

"whatever you want"